Learn Arts across the parks

Biodiversity: Plant Identification

Hummingbird Migration K-2

Identifying Birds of Acadia

K-2: Monarch Migration

Nature Quilts

Botany for Elementary Students

Carriage Road Explorers Post Activities

Phenology for Upper Elementary Classes

Carl Sandburg's Connemara (Grades K-2)

"Fog" by Carl Sandburg (Grades 3-5)

Carl Sandburg Through Time (Grades 3-5)

Carl Sandburg's Connemara (Grades 3-5) Carl Sandburg Home NHS

Carl Sandburg: Biographer of Lincoln (Grades 3-5)

Why People Move: Human Migration (Grades 3-5) Lesson 1 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS

Why People Move: Introduction to Using Primary Sources (Grades 3-5) Lesson 3 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS

Why People Move: The Changing Roles of Minorities (Grades 3-5) Lesson 2 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS

Carl Sandburg's Connemara (Grades 6-8)

Carl Sandburg's Performance Poetry

Consider the Source: Migration to the Mountains: From the Lowcountry of Charleston, South Carolina to the highlands of Flat Rock, North Carolina. (Grades 6-8) Lesson 2 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS

Consider the Source: The Stories We Tell and The History We Know (Grade 6 -8) Lesson 3 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS     

Consider the Source: The Words We Mean: An Exercise and Study on Euphemisms, Language, and Dialogue about Chattel Slavery in Western North Carolina and the United States (Grades 6-8) Lesson 1 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS

Let Your Voice be Heard (Grades 6-8) Carl Sandburg Home NHS

Carl Sandburg's Connemara (Grades 9-12)

Civil Rights Then and Now (Grades 9-12) Carl Sandburg Home NHS

Problems and Perspectives (Grades 9-12) Carl Sandburg Home NHS

Songs with Social Influence (Grades 9-12) Carl Sandburg Home NHS

The Lost Cause: Chattel Slavery and Corroborating Evidence (Grades 9-12) Lesson 2 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS

The Lost Cause: Colonization, Chattel Slavery, and Migration (Grades 9-12) Lesson 1 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS

The Lost Cause: Slave Narratives in Western North Carolina (Grades 9-12) Lesson 3 of 3 Carl Sandburg Home NHS

Airplanes of the Future!

Clay Stamps

Homage to Bleriot

First Flight or Fake News?

Mood Masks

Douglass

Printmaking - Landscapes

Wright or Wrong

Goldilocks and the Real Bears

Climate Mime-it

Forest Poetry

Mature Forest Mime

National Park Service Arrowhead

The Bear Facts

Visual Vocabulary

It Was a Very Good Year

Oral Histories and Glacier National Park

Stewards of the Land

The Liberty Bell as a Modern Symbol, grades K-2

Philadelphia and San Francisco in 1776: The National Park Sites Where History Unfolded! Grade 5

The Liberty Bell as a Modern Symbol, grades 3-5

Independence Hall: International Symbol of Freedom

The Liberty Bell as a Symbol for Civil Rights, grades 4-8

“Tracking” Down the Secret Code / North American Animal “Who am I”

Housing: Early Homes

Important Members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Arts Crafts Clothing and Appearance: Parfleche, Quillwork, Basketry

Arts, Crafts, Clothing and Appearance: Flint, Pottery, Painting

Economy and Trade: Pre 1845

Researching Prairie Restoration

Subsistence: Men’s Contributions

Subsistence: Women’s Influence

Transportation

“Tracking” Down the Secret Code / North American Animal “Who am I”

Gifts and Trading

Important Members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

I’ll Take This, and I’ll Need That!

“With Great Pains and Accuracy”

To Code or Not to Code, That was the Question.

“Tracking” Down the Secret Code / North American Animal “Who am I”

Gifts and Trading

Important Members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

I’ll Take This, and I’ll Need That!

“With Great Pains and Accuracy”

To Code or Not to Code, That was the Question.

“Tracking” Down the Secret Code / North American Animal “Who am I”

Important Members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

I've Been Working on the Railroad

Pancho's Scrapbook

The O'odham

Mapping Tumacácori

Riot, Rebellion, or Revolt?

Critical Source Evaluation

Antietam Then and Now

War at Your Doorstep: The Story of the Mumma Family at the Battle of Antietam

Freedom at Antietam

Women in the Civil War

Pottery of the Ancestral Pueblo

Learning about Mill Workers through Primary Sources

The Life of Captain Wilbur Kelly

Conflicting Values: John Brown and Adin Ballou

Peace Picnics and Community in Hopedale

Introduction to the Kecoughtan People: "Home" in an Indigenous Tidewater Virginia Town

The Chesapeake Bay in John Smith's Time

John Smith's Masterpiece and Copyright Nightmare

Coquina: The Mighty Tiny Shell

DBQ Essay: Effects of Spanish Rule

Life of a Spanish Soldier

Native American and European Encounters

Pre and Post Field Trip Activities

The Columbian Exchange

Virtual Field Trip

Unforgettable Music

Pottery of the Ancestral Pueblo

The Atlanta Campaign

The Chesapeake Bay in John Smith's Time

John Smith's Masterpiece and Copyright Nightmare

The Chesapeake Bay in John Smith's Time

I Know That Tune! Folk Music, Traditions, Opinions, & Historical Facts

Art Speaks! Visual Arts & the Significance of Place

"Create a National Park" National Parks: 4-6 Grade

"Designs Of My World" Native People: 4-6 Grade

Coquina: The Mighty Tiny Shell

DBQ Essay: Effects of Spanish Rule

Life of a Spanish Soldier

Native American and European Encounters

Pre and Post Field Trip Activities

The Columbian Exchange

Virtual Field Trip

Unforgettable Music

Introduction to the Kecoughtan People: "Home" in an Indigenous Tidewater Virginia Town

The Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feelings at the Battle of Palo Alto

The Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feelings at the Battle of Palo Alto

Archaeologist for a Day

Save the Endangered Species!

Superhero Species

Current Events – Uranium Mining

Activities for Home - Dark Skies

Hulihia Kīlauea – a Complete Change part 3, post-visit classroom activities and assessment

The Chesapeake Bay in John Smith's Time

John Smith's Masterpiece and Copyright Nightmare

Philadelphia and San Francisco in 1776: The National Park Sites Where History Unfolded! Grade 5

Two Poems on the Charles River: Sensory Poetry About Place

Pottery of the Ancestral Pueblo

Ladders for Success

The Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feelings at the Battle of Palo Alto

Defending Your Beliefs

Salem, Slavery, and the Sacred Cod

Quest for Omitted History: Part 1

Quest for Omitted History: Part 2

Quest for Omitted History: Part 3

Boiler Room Experiment - Hercules STEAM Unit Lesson #3

Diving Deeper - Hercules STEAM Unit Lesson #2

Fuel & Energy Transfer in Steam Engines - Hercules STEAM Unit Lesson #4

Full STEAM Ahead - What is Hercules?

The Aquatic Park Bathhouse and the New Deal: A Palace for the People?

Good Character, Good Stewards

Write Out 2023

Defending the Chesapeake Region!

Saving History: The White House, Dolley Madison and the War of 1812

What Caused the War of 1812? Modified Lesson Plan for Students with Special Needs

The Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feelings at the Battle of Palo Alto

The Trail of Tears in Middle Tennessee

First Flight or Fake News?

Wright or Wrong

Dueling Mandates: Preservation and Use of National Parks

A Bear's Menu

Who Am I? (A lesson on animals and their habitats)

Researching Change Over Time in Local Communities

HERstories of Cuyahoga Valley: the Suffrage Movement and Harriet Keeler

When War Hits Home: The Ohio & Erie Canal Town of Peninsula, and the Civil War Election of 1864

I Know That Tune! Folk Music, Traditions, Opinions, & Historical Facts

Art Speaks! Visual Arts & the Significance of Place

Homestead Act Paperwork

Gold Fever! Seattle Outfits the Klondike Gold Rush

Gold Fever! Seattle Outfits the Klondike Gold Rush

Researching Change Over Time in Local Communities

Conservation vs Preservation and the National Park Service

I Know That Tune! Folk Music, Traditions, Opinions, & Historical Facts

Art Speaks! Visual Arts & the Significance of Place

I Know That Tune! Folk Music, Traditions, Opinions, & Historical Facts

Gran Quivira: A Blending of Cultures in a Pueblo Indian Village

Riding the Rails and Traveling the Trails: Grades 4, 7, 12

I Know That Tune! Folk Music, Traditions, Opinions, & Historical Facts

Art Speaks! Visual Arts & the Significance of Place

Lafayette Park: First Amendment Rights on the President’s Doorstep

I Know That Tune! Folk Music, Traditions, Opinions, & Historical Facts

Bellringer - Cherokee Braves

I Know That Tune! Folk Music, Traditions, Opinions, & Historical Facts

Art Speaks! Visual Arts & the Significance of Place

Defending Your Beliefs

Fort McHenry as a Prison: A Soldier's Life

Defending Your Beliefs

Defending Your Beliefs

Can You Identify Me?

Carrying Capacity and Bears in Alaska

How Clear Is the Water?

How Many Salmon Are Enough?

Climate Change in Vermont: Measuring Predicted Impacts

Nature, Art and Conservation at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park

Defending Your Beliefs